Community Raises $25K, Holds Vigil For Steven Kim

Doylestown, PA - The community has rallied around the family of a Lenape Middle School student killed over the weekend by raising $25,000 in an online fundraiser to help with medical costs and funeral expenses.

Steven Kim was skateboarding when he was struck and killed around 11 p.m. in Doylestown Township. He was on the bike path and did not stop when he got to Rt. 611 and Turk Road, the Intelligencer reported.

A GoFundMe page was established with a $8,000 fundraising goal. By Tuesday morning, $24,960 had been raised. Hundreds attended a vigil Monday in his honor, Action News reported.

Steven was a student at Lenape Middle School but played for the Central Bucks West freshman football team, school officials said.

School officials said counselors were available Monday at both Central Bucks West and Lenape Middle School.

“On December 12, the world lost the sweetest, kindest, most loving and greatest son, brother, nephew, cousin, grandson and friend. At the age of 14, Steven Hunter Kim traggically lost his life when he was struck by a car,” the GoFundMe fundraising page says.

“We are at a loss for words of how such a tragic event could have happened. We are all still in shock and this doesn’t seem real. He is with the angels, far too soon.”

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